Student activists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are calling for administrators to “remove and replace” a statue of Abraham Lincoln, which has been sitting on the university’s campus since 1909.
An online petition calling for the century-old statue’s removal has been circulating among UW-Madison community members over the past weeks. The statue, according to the university’s alumni association, is a replica of one erected in Lincoln’s birthplace in Kentucky. Richard Lloyd Jones, an alumni, worked with prominent UW donor Thomas E. Brittingham to purchase the statue and donated it to the university.
